Category Archives: Food

Easy Recipe for Tiramisu

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Easy Recipe for Tiramisu When people rhapsodise about Italian desserts, it doesn’t take long before tiramisu takes over the conversation! Funnily enough, tiramisu is a fairly recent addition to the Italian sweets menu and nobody can agree on who came up with the delicious concoction. However its origins are traced to the northern Italian town […]

Discover Italy: A Sweet Taste of Genoa

Discover Italy: A Sweet Taste of Genoa We often find when our guests arrive at Villa Pia they fall head over heels in love with our picturesque Umbrian farmhouse, and never want to leave! But, of course, there is an entire country of sights and experiences to be discovered beyond our backdrop of rolling Tuscan hills. […]

How to Make Your Own Pizza

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How to Make your Own Pizza   Did you know that, according to legend, margherita pizza was named after Queen Margherita of Savoy back in the late 1800s? Apparently she liked the colour combination of basil, tomato sauce and mozzarella cheese because it reminded her of the tricolore Italian flag. Today margherita pizza is one […]

Cookery Classes at Villa Pia

At Villa Pia we have a selection of activities that you can sign up for, on top of the all-inclusive access to our swimming pools, tennis courts and music room which is available to our guests. You can have a massage, take a yoga class or enrol on one of our most popular classes – cookery! Every week we run classes for both adults and children, where our guests learn a variety of traditional techniques and dishes, whatever their age.